Cross-cultural psychopharmacology: a current clinical perspective.

Psychiatr Serv

Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Published: January 2005

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